Brock University History 5V00

Empire

David Schimmelpenninck Office: GLN 229

Tel: 688-5550, ext. 3507 Email: dschimme@brocku.ca

Overview This seminar examines empires in the modern world. While it focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, it will also consider their earlier incarnations. After surveying the principal theories, the seminar begins with a chronological approach, from imperial states in Antiquity to twentieth-century decolonization. The course then turns to major themes, including ideology, culture, post-colonialism, the subaltern, and resistance. During the last weeks student will present papers based on their essays.

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Requirements & Grading nb - The writing, reading and presentation load will be heavy. You are strongly advised to keep up with the weekly assignments. • Seminar Preparation – 30% of grade

You will lead one seminar during the semester.

• Seminar Participation – 20% of grade Attendance at seminars is mandatory. You will be expected to do the

required readings before your seminar meeting and to participate in the discussions.

• Paper Presentation – Pass/Fail During the last seminar, students will each present a 10-minute paper based on their essay. The format will be as in an academic conference, with questions from the others followed by (polite) collective critique.

• Prospectus – Pass/Fail A 1-page statement of intent for the paper to be written during the term. Must consist of 1-2 paragraphs describing your proposal as well as proper citations of at least 5 sources you plan to use.

• Paper – 40% of grade

A 30-page historiographical paper on a topic relevant to the course.

• Presentation – 10% of Grade A 20-minute oral presentation of an empire, including a brief overview of its rise and

(if applicable) fall, its major characteristics as an empire, and a short survey of the relevant literature.

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Required Texts & Films

Week 1 - Introduction

Week 2 - Theories Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper, Empires, 1-22, 287-329. Dominic Lieven, Empire, 3-26 “Empire,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/ECG_EMS/EMPIRE.html Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Theories of Imperialism D. K. Fieldhouse, “‘Imperialism’: An Historiographical Revision,” The Economic History

Review 14.2 (1961), 187-209. (E)* William Roger Louis, “Introduction,” in Robin Winks, ed., Historiography, vol. 5, The

Oxford History of the British Empire, Oxford, 2001, 1-42. (E) “Thinking about Empire: A Forum, ” Historically Speaking 7.4 (2007), 15-28. (E)

See Zulu

Week 3 - Ancient Empires Burbank & Cooper, Empires, 23-115. Lieven, Empire, 27-40 Derk Bodde, “The State and Empire of Ch’in,” Denis Twitchett and Michael Lowe, eds.,

The Cambridge History of China, vol. 1, The Ch’in and Han Empires 221 B.C.-A.D. 220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 20-91. (E)

Nicola Di Cosmo, “State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History,” Journal of World History 10.1 (Spring 1999), 1-40. (E)

Gary B. Miles, “Roman and Modern Imperialism: A Reassessment,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 32.4 (Oct., 1990), 629-659. (E)

Week 4 - Overseas Empires Burbank & Cooper, Empires, 149-184 Lieven, Empire, 89-120. D. K. Fieldhouse, The Colonial Empires, 372-394. James Carney, “Early Spanish Imperialism,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 12.2 (1939), 138-146. (E) Daniel Headrick, “The Tools of Imperialism,” The Journal of Modern History 51.2 (1979), 231-263. (E) John Gallagher & Ronald Robinson, “The Imperialism of Free Trade,” The Economic History Review 6.1 (1953), 1-15. (E)

☞ Prospectus due at start of seminar. *(E) – Available electronically from the Gibson Library.

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Required Texts and Films, cont’d.

Week 5 - Continental Empires Burbank & Cooper, Empires, 185-218, 251-286, 331-368. Lieven, Empire, 120-329. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, “Bismarck's Imperialism 1862-1890,” Past and Present, 48 (1970), 119-155. (E)

Week 6 - No seminar

Week 7 - The End of Empire Burbank & Cooper, Empires 369-459. Lieven, Empire, 329-422. Robert A. Adams, Decadent Societies. San Francisco, 1983, 1-15. : Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. IV. London, 1986, 371-379. : Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. New York, 1987, xv-xxv. : Rudolf von Albertini, “The Impact of Two World Wars on the Decline of Colonialism,”

Journal of Contemporary History 4.1 (1969), 17-35. (E)

See Black and White in Colour Week 8 - Ideology Ben Silverstein & Patrick Wolfe, “Ideology,” P. Levine & J. Marriott, eds., The Ashgate

Companion to Modern Imperial Histories. Farnham, 2012, 471-488. : Susan Mattern, Rome and the Enemy. Berkeley, 1999, 162-210. : Peter Perdue, China Marches West. Cambridge, MA, 2005, 462-494. : Anthony Pagden, Lords of All The World. New Haven, 1995,

103-125. : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Toward the Rising Sun. DeKalb, IL, 2001,

196-211. :

*: – Available on Sakai.

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Required Texts and Films, cont’d.

Week 9 - Culture Edward Said, Orientalism

John M. Mackenzie,” Empire and Metropolitan Cultures,” in Andrew Porter, et al, eds., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 270-292. (E)

Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather. New York: Routledge, 1995, 207-231. : Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo. London: Egmont, 2010 (R)

Week 10 - Po-Co Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” Nelson and Grossberg, eds.

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 272-313.

http://www.bahaistudies.net/neurelitism/library/subaltern_speak.pdf Homi Bhabha, "Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority

under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817," Critical Inquiry 12.1 (1985), 144-165. (E) Gyan Prakash, “Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism, ” American Historical

Review 99.5 (1994), 1475-1490. (E) Sara Suleiri, “Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition,” Critical

Inquiry 18.4 (1992), 756-769. (E) Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality. Manchester: University of Manchester Press,

1990, 200-217. :

See The Battle of Algiers

*(R) – On 3-hour reserve at the Gibson Library.

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Required Texts and Films, cont’d. Week 11 - Resistance Mao Zedong, On Guerrilla Warfare. New York, 1967. https://archive.org/stream/MaoTse-tungOnGuerrillaWarfare/Fmfrp12-18MaoTse-

tungOnGuerrillaWarfare_djvu.txt James Scott, Weapons of the Weak. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, 28-47. : Col. C. E. Callwell, Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice. Lincoln, NE: University of

Nebraska Press, 1996, 21-71. : United States Army and United States Marine Corps, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps

Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 1-52, 79-135, 151-197.

Week 12 - Paper Presentations

☞ Paper due at start of seminar.

Required Texts Books to Buy Jane Burbank & Fred Cooper, Empires in World History. Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 2010 Dominic Lieven, Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Theories of Imperialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

1982. Edward W. Said, Orientalism. NY: Vintage, 1979. United States Army and United States Marine Corps, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007

Films Cy Enfield, Zulu (1964) Jean-Jacques Annnaud, Black and White in Colour (1977) Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle for Algiers (1967)